The RAF doesn't launch the Battle of Berlin in 1943, instead focuses on the Ruhr

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The Channel is narrow. On a clear day you can see the other side. It's a day trip by landing craft. The trucks drive off fully loaded. No port required. Again there is an article/paper for this. I'm not saying that Log is my Jam, but I have a wargamer's respect for the supply. So when read these things they stick with me.
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Good points.

You still have to get them from the Med, where they are, to the Channel where they are not. Not easy. Strait of Gibraltar was a severe problem for underpowered ships (6 knot current.). Trip to Cotentin Pennisula from the invasion ports is;

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~ 70 NM at ~ 7 knots (LST average speed) which means 10 hours to a whole day to arrive sea-sick off Sword, Gold, Juno, Omaha and Utah.

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~ 70 NM at ~ 7 knots (LST average speed) which means 10 hours to a whole day to arrive sea-sick off Sword, Gold, Juno, Omaha and Utah.
That's fair. The bottleneck was loading and unloading. Driving onto a ship/craft stranded by tide and then driving off the other side having stranded ("dried off") on the French beach of your choice is still quicker than transferring cargo by crane at the docks then France to drop anchor and lower the cargo to small boats or crane off at Mulberry dockside (waiting in queue, until that three day storm). RoRo surprised the logistics planners. It was a measure born of necessity that truly delivered. Goods were piling up at the Southern English docks. Ships were moored up waiting days to be unloaded into France. The secondary objective to utilize the beaches on the western side of the Cotentin Peninsula was never exploited and Supply Over Beaches could have delivered even more. Half of Mulberry was lost early on. Cherbourg held out for months and Pluto took a while to start helping out with the shortage of "Jerry" cans as people weren't returning the empties. More bowser trucks would have helped that problem.

The Red Ball express started in England. Roll-on Roll-off.
 
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